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It’s absolutely wonderful to have your interest, Phiĺlip. We wanted to let you know that you can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.) And we encourage you to pursue your interest and digestion by joining our ever-growing Facebook Group and registering for free, live, interactive events with Jeremy and others.

Hi Marvin, on Facebook, you just need to click on the ‘Watch More’ button at the bottom right of the advertisement, or you can freely watch, listen to, or read THE Interview at www.humancondition.com where all our other videos, books, essays are also freely available.

Hi Denise, while it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

As is explained in Part 4 of THE Interview (titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’), while the upset within us will take generations to be completely healed, importantly we can be immediately “free” of its effects. We can at last understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living and making the “selfless and tireless contribution to mankind and the world” you seek. This is the rapidly rehabilitating and transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. This is further explained in Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’, while the Transformation section of our website is brimming with invaluable insight, counsel and personal affirmations. You may also find our FAQ 1.40 helpful titled ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? – In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful?’. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.

Hi Sara, thank you for your question. Explanation of this new science presents a paradigm shift in our thinking so it can take time to assimilate what’s been explained. But as THE Interview explains, we do have completely loving and selfless instincts (as a result of the nurturing love-indoctrination process explained in Part 3), and that our discontent isn’t the product of competition over limited resources, but a psychosis resulting from a clash between our emerging conscious mind and those pre-established instincts. Selfishness, which is what fighting over resources is, is a symptom of the underlying, deep insecurity in humans caused by the human condition, so if we solve that condition we resolve any competition over resources. Solving the human condition meant answering the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? It is this question of questions that Jeremy has solved. To quote FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’: “So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race.”

Yes, understanding the human condition is the ultimate ‘real life survival skill’. Having this understanding taught in schools may appear a long way off but every day more people are discovering it’s astonishing explanatory power! As with any new scientific discovery, this necessarily has a slow start, humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish as the selflessness it liberates in people will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, including teaching other people about this redeeming information, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can, and what was a hopeless looking situation will quickly turn around – see FAQ 1.40.

    Well, you’ve certainly found the “macro thesis” you’ve been searching for, Dimitrius!! Since the study of behaviour is the province of biology, it follows that the all-important task of explaining and understanding human behaviour, most especially the crux issue of our ‘good and evil’ conflicted human condition, has been the particular responsibility of biological scientists. And as THE Interview explains, it turns out that the human condition is the unlocking point for so much enquiry that has been stalled by having to live in denial of it. Now with Jeremy Griffith’s denial-free, holistic ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise an entirely new landscape of knowledge opens up, so we are sure you will find Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM absolutely fascinating. It, along with all Jeremy’s key books are freely available here on our homepage.     Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy and others about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

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Hi Fredu, as THE Interview explains, our greed and desire for materialism and the abundant overproduction we see in the world, are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we have to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that which is what Jeremy Griffith has done and presents here in THE Interview. What is explained is that our emerging conscious mind came into conflict with our pre-established instincts, causing us to become insecure and psychologically upset, which we then compensate for through selfishness and materialism – see FAQ 1.3 for a nutshell summary.

Please pursue your interest Pankaj, you won’t be disappointed! Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

Hi Russell, as with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However, with support from those who appreciate this understanding, the truth is that this redeeming, uplifting and healing explanation of the human condition is SO liberating and SO exciting that it won’t be long be everyone realises that it is completely pointless to keep trying to compensate for their insecurity through the pursuit of power, fame, fortune and glory. You might be especially interested in FAQ 1.40, which addresses the questions of ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’. It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

Thank you very much James. And just to be clear, Jeremy Griffith’s treatise reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts such as ‘God’. Readers might be interested in our FAQs about religion.

     Various thinkers have identified a clash between an instinctive part of our brain and the more recently developed intellectual part as being critical to understanding the human condition (see for example Freedom Essay 4 which includes an analysis of Paul MacLean’s triune brain theory), however what was missing in all these attempts to delve into the problem of the human condition was the all-important clarifying, redeeming, reconciling and psychologically rehabilitating explanation for WHY the conflict between our instincts and our consciousness occurred. Until that was found, we humans couldn’t relieve ourselves of our psychologically upset state or condition. You will see that in FAQ 1.46 McGilchrist’s and Jaynes' theories of divided brain hemispheres is also discussed.     With regards to human evolution being based on cooperation, as Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, altruistic, unconditionally selfless genetic traits are self-eliminating, and therefore cannot normally develop in animals—which means animals are not able to ‘cooperate’ beyond situations of reciprocity or kin selection (see chapter 6:9 of FREEDOM for an expose of false left wing biology that claims that cooperation can be selected for). However, as Jeremy explains in Part 3 of THE Interview, the selfish process of natural selection was able to create loving selflessness in our forebears through nurturing.

Thank you Robert, Harry, Bonnie, Tony and Tim! We wanted to let you know that the WTM’s homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

As Richard Heinberg wrote in the quote included in THE Interview: “Every religion begins with the recognition that human consciousness has been separated from the divine Source, that a former sense of oneness…has been lost…everywhere in religion and myth there is an acknowledgment that we have departed from an original…innocence…the cause of the Fall is described variously as disobedience, as the eating of a forbidden fruit, and as spiritual amnesia [alienation].” Irrespective of religious teachings, we suggest that all humans carry an enormous guilt and shame for having corrupting our original instinctive self or soul, which Jeremy explains in his new presentation The Great Guilt.

Hi Arlie, the breakthrough explanation of the human condition presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking so it’s natural to need to take time to digest all it reveals. As Jeremy Griffith describes, the human condition has historically been such a fearful, off-limits topic and the mind simply needs time to ride out the initial shock of having it broached and all manner of mystery unlocked. We encourage re-watching THE Interview and looking at the Introductory Videos on the WTM homepage because the more you do absorb this explanation, the more you realise just how all-clarifying, all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing, all-liberating it is, and that it will indeed “make the world a better place”!

As THE Interview explains, all humans suffer from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. As a species, we became angry, egocentric and alienated, or in a word ‘upset’ so all humans, to varying degrees, suffer from the human condition. As the highly respected psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “the beauty of Griffith’s treatise is that the healing starts at the macro level of the universal human condition; the healing of the shame and blame that the whole human race has suffered from…It brings the greater context and love to all human psychosis and suffering, and then, from under the umbrella of that safe position, everyone can gradually work inwards to their particular experience of all the imperfections in human life that have now, finally, been made sense of.” (FAQ 1.34).

Unfortunately, a proper understanding of instincts shows that because they are only naturally selected orientations, in no guise are they not ‘dictatorial’ and so there is no way they could they ‘support’ the intellect’s deviations from their dictates; and the only way the intellect can ‘gel’ with the instincts, is through understanding why it was not wrong to defy the instincts’ ‘criticism’. It is only the all-important redeeming explanation of WHY the clash between those elements produced the psychologically upset state of the human condition that could allow the intellect to stop being defensive, and ameliorate our angry, egocentric and alienated state. See FAQ 1.42.

Thanks John, please pursue that interest, you won’t be disappointed! Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

Thank you Steven. We are doing everything we can to ensure that as many people as possible become aware of Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition.

Hi Jennifer, Jeremy Griffith explains in paragraph 1147 of FREEDOM that “the practice of science that provided the all-important insights into the mechanisms of the workings of our world that were needed for that explanation [of the human condition] to be assembled—which means, as pointed out in par. 296, it is the practice of science as a whole that is humanity’s liberator, its so-called ‘saviour’ or ‘messiah’.” And from Freedom Essay 40, “In par. 1278 [of FREEDOM], I also recognised that historically, people have talked of the need for a ‘second coming’ (after Christ) of innocence to save the world, but I explained that in the vast spectrum of alienation that inevitably developed in humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, there have always been a rare few individuals who have been sufficiently nurtured with alienation-free, unconditional love to be sound and secure enough in self to think truthfully and effectively about the human condition, as I have done, but until the discipline of science found understanding of the difference in the way genes and nerves process information, such truthful-thinking individuals were in no position to put together the explanation of the human condition. So denial-free thinking had an important concluding role to play, and such thinkers have been rare (read more about Christ in the previous essay, Freedom Essay 39), but the critical need was for science to find understanding of the difference in the way genes and nerves work.” For further contexting explanation, we recommend our FAQ 3.14: Does Jeremy Griffith regard himself as the ‘second coming’ and as the ‘messiah’ that are talked about in the Bible?

Jeremy Griffith’s biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly doesn’t excuse the right-wing for its corrupting behaviour, nor unfairly focus on the failing of the left, which is that its insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing the search for knowledge, but rather brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics, see www.humancondition.com/frequently-asked-questions/#about-politics/

Hi Ahmad, Jeremy’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support. Unfortunately we don’t yet have any Persian translations but our Translations page shows all languages that are available. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

Thank you for your interest, Tim. Yes, it’s amazing that our species’ psychosis can be healed through understanding; that it’s not an immutable condition that mechanistic scientists have purported. But it’s important to clarify that human’s divisive behaviour is not a product of unchangeable savage animal instincts within us that needed to be overcome by our intellect, but the result of the psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct & intellect, see https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays/the-false-savage-instincts-excuse/

Hi Dale, THE Interview is about both men and women. It explains the universal psychosis all humans suffer from caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, which significantly can be healed through understanding. What is astonishing is that despite our psychologically upset condition this biological treatise establishes all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women.

Thank you very much, Ade, for your considered feedback. Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives. It explains that it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. How this healing is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5 and FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

Thank you Frances. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

Yes James, we agree. In THE Interview, it is explained that the idea that we have ‘savage instincts’, an idea that most people adhere to and which is widely taught, is not right – the truth is that our instinctive legacy is loving, cooperative and compassionate. So Darwin’s idea of natural selection was a critically important breakthrough, not only because it allowed us to understand how the great variety of life on Earth emerged, but because it finally enabled us to explain the human condition. After we could understand the process of natural selection we were finally in a position to explain that our instincts were only orientations to and not understandings of the world around us, which, as has now been revealed, is the key to explaining the human condition. Most significantly, and as you are alluding to, in the first edition of The Origin of Species Darwin did leave it undecided as to whether those individuals that reproduced more could be viewed as winners, as being ‘fitter’. However it is evidenced in later editions that Darwin’s associates, Herbert Spencer and Alfred Russel Wallace, persuaded him to substitute the term ‘natural selection’ with the term ‘survival of the fittest’ (Letter from Wallace to Darwin, 2 Jul. 1866; The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol.14, p.227 of 706), see Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM (chapter 2:9, paragraph 195).

Simply fascinating! Worth sharing with others to understand and live life happily.

What is so important about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so competition, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source so we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world.

     Thanks Nigel. While we are not overly familiar with the Celebes Macaque, we do know that once you understand the Love-Indoctrination process (see Part 3 of THE Interview), you can start to look at other species and see how far they have progressed, or where they have got stalled in that process.      With regard to the Bishoi community, and others cooperative communities, it does need to be stressed that while we could put rules into place to curb our selfish behaviour, the only thing that could truly end our egocentric and alienated state was the reconciling understanding of the human condition. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM.

Great initiative Andrew. As you know, Jeremy Griffith’s books can be ordered from good bookstores or online from Amazon or other online bookstores. FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) is also freely available to download or read online HERE on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

Yes, the Deaf Effect is very real, and your approach to overcoming it is perfect Brian! We do recommend Jeremy’s presentation The Great Guilt, which allows us to understand, and therefore overcome, this Deaf Effect to being able to ‘hear’ and access the solution to the human condition.

Everybody should ask ‘thought leaders’ all around the world to listen to THE Interview, and to interview Jeremy Griffith. Jeremy’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition really is the only thing that can save the human race from terminal alienation.

While it takes some time to digest, you will see that Jeremy Griffith’s work allows our ‘consciousness to be reorientated’. It does this by answering the essential question of ‘why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish?’. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview. While religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. Most wonderfully, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation are made redundant, which means we are finally in a position to ‘bring out human nobility and transform...’ In Part 4 of THE Interview, Jeremy explains how the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible, actually occurs.

While Kabbalistic teaching (as well as other religious lore) do touch on the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately, to allow instinct and intellect “to accept each other as they are”, we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish, and answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM.

Robert, there is a lot to digest here, but we hope you persevere, because what is so significant about the explanation of the human conditon is that this understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour!